Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Working Class

Re:Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Work... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:26AM (#25059677)

The Democratic messaging sucks. The Green New Deal promises 30 million new jobs. South Texas Hispanics would get a large fraction of those jobs because Texas has both wind and sun, and the Hispanics are overrepresented in construction jobs. That's a good trade for the tens of thousands of coal and oil jobs that are going to disappear anyways, Green New Deal or not.

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Re:Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Work... by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:33PM (#25060511)

> The Democratic messaging sucks.

1000% agree. There was a serious of images of Fox News voter analysis polls that made the rounds in social media. The results are here: https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results/voter... .

The vast majority of these answers show broad support for Democratic priorities. I mean "Do you favor or oppose each of the following? Changing the health care system so that any American can buy into a government-run health care plan if they want to" got 70% "strong" or "somewhat" support. 71% support giving a pathway to apply for legal status to illegal immigrants, vs. 29% in favor of deportation. "Do you favor or oppose each of the following? Increasing federal government spending on green and renewable energy" got 68% in favor.

And this is a Fox News poll. In poll after poll when you ask what policies people want, they lean strongly toward Democratic priorities.

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Re:Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Work... by thatguymike on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:53PM (#25064476)

... A nice demonstration that messaging is the problem.

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Re:Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Work... by zanny on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:35PM (#25060536)

It also comes at the cost of the entrenched business interests, both in raising their taxes and rolling back their regulatory capture, that bought all their election campaigns off.

Ultimately politicians on both sides walk a tightrope of how much they can sell out against how unpopular and unelectable they want to be. The races are always close almost everywhere as politicians optimize their corruption budget.

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